The underlying climate message is hard-core Marxist

by Chris Morrison

Thu Jan 19, 2023 – Late last year, Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary for Global Communications at the United Nations, told a World Economic Forum “Disinformation” seminar that we “own the science” around climate change, and we think the world should know it, so we partnered with Google to ensure only UN results appear.

Needless to say, this arrogant claim merely hints at the scale of disinformation practised by global elites in pushing numerous messages designed to spread fearful command-and-control societal propaganda.

PR Flak Fleming also noted that the UN worked with TikTok on a project called “Team Halo” to boost COVID messaging. This was said to be another trusted messenger project, “where we trained scientists around the world and some doctors on TikTok, and we had TikTok working with us.”

With climate, as with some of the COVID narrative, science has long taken a back seat. Any scientific findings that suggest human-produced carbon dioxide is not the overriding thermostat that determines the Earth’s climate are either insulted or ignored. Only “settled” science messages from presumably “trained” scientists are allowed.

It is perhaps no accident that Google’s capture by the UN came at a time when it “demonetized” a blog detailing the global satellite temperature record. This work, by two scientists at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, is the most accurate record of global temperature. As we have seen, it shows considerably less warming since 1979 than surface datasets that have been adjusted upwards on a retrospective basis. Google took its action on the patently false grounds that the page was supplying “harmful claims.”

Of course, much of this narrative is indicative of a desire by elites in an inter-connected world to enforce more controlling collectivism on local and international populations. Green politics mostly arose on the Left, attracting activists who have always sought collectivist approaches to often messy, individualistic human activities.

We must be grateful to the Guardian for providing a “long read” (how your correspondent suffers for his art) detailing the way that political activists infiltrate the climate debate in order to push this long-cherished, capitalism-hating political narrative.

“One of the goals of system change is to supersede individual virtue,” writes U.S. correspondent Rebecca Solnit. By “individual virtue”, of course, she means individual choice. “Electrification will have happened because of the collective action that takes shape as policy and regulation,” she added.

Solnit quotes the climate writer Mary Heglar, who suggests that for too long the climate fight has been limited to scientists and policy experts. What we “desperately need” are more artists. Solnit suggests “winning” the popular imagination by providing new stories on climate.

Already, she says that “climate denial” has been rendered largely obsolete by climate-driven catastrophes promoted by activists and journalists. By this, she refers to the non-stop pseudoscientific attribution of every bad weather event to humans burning fossil fuel. We have to find stories of a liveable future, “stories of popular power that motivate people to do what it takes to make the world we need,” urges Solnit.

Stories, it might be noted, that persuade people to give up products that work like gas boilers and internal combustion engines, in favor of manifestly inferior substitutes. Stories, for instance, as spun by Solnit, that suggest mining for lithium and cobalt will be an “inevitable part of building renewables.”

Thus important questions over the finite supplies of both these materials, and the use of children to mine cobalt, are conveniently ignored. It is estimated that 225 tonnes of the Earth’s crust must be disturbed to supply just one 1,000 pound car battery, but Solnit points to the “far vaster scale and impact of fossil fuel mining.” Of course it can be argued that the modern-day extraction of oil and gas is a remarkably clean process, requiring little more than a hole in the ground. No children need die in the process.

Old-school Marxists have always relied on demonizing the rich to promise a better future for all. So Solnit runs with the story that we need to punish the rich with their large carbon footprints, and “the global majority don’t need to change much.” This is highly disingenuous. Lifestyle changes proposed by green elites become more extreme by the month – this month, meat off the menu because cows fart, next month, dangerous fertilizers and farms impounded. Billions of people will be affected by diet, travel and energy bans and restrictions, and billions more will be denied the life-enhancing progress enjoyed in the industrialized countries over the last 200 years.

Last year, green elites were shocked by polling evidence that suggested four-in-ten people across five continents believed climate change was mainly due to natural causes. This despite decades of climate catastrophizing to promote Net Zero policies.

The 30-country IPSOS survey found that the level of climate skepticism was very similar in all age categories, but there was wide divergence when political leanings were taken into account. Across seven countries surveyed, 28 percent of supporters of the Left were skeptical of human-caused climate change, a figure that rose to 50 percent of those on the Right.

The underlying climate message is hard-core Marxist. Recognizing the reality of climate breakdown means limiting the freedom of the individual “in the name of the wellbeing of the collective,” Solnit states. There is another way to count wealth and abundance for the many including “meaningful work and purposeful lives,” she suggests.

You will be happy in your work and prosperous, declared the Communist posters of old. “They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work,” muttered citizens of the old Soviet Union quietly among themselves. The Daily Sceptic.

by Paul Craig Roberts

A majority of the white ethnicities, such as the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Scots, and others, came to the original colonies to escape oppression and persecution. Some came as slaves.  English debtors were sold into indentured servitude to cover their debts.

The notion of Woke white liberals that only blacks were enslaved is historical ignorance.  There were more white slaves in history than black. Arab slave traders raided the coastal cities of Italy and France. Arabs captured Americans off of merchant ships, causing the Founding Fathers to send the US Marines to the shores of Tripoli. Why are only black descendants of former slaves entitled to reparations?

The white American liberals have concocted a fiction that only white Americans are responsible for slavery.  The truth of the matter is that white Americans have no responsibility for slavery.  Every black purchased as a member of an agricultural work force in America was enslaved long before arriving in the British colonies of North America which became later the United States.  They were enslaved by the African slave wars between black tribes or kingdoms, among which the black king of Dahomey was supreme.

Many of Dahomey’s captives were themselves warring for slaves and lost the battle.

Among the black contenders for slaves, slaves were a status symbol, but as time passed more slaves were accumulated than could be supported by their captors.  The surplus was sold, thus beginning the slave trade.  Initially they were sold to Arabs, then to the European powers who had colonies in the New World where there were resources but no labor force.  Every black slave who ended up in what became later the United States and for its short existence the Confederate States of America could have been kept in Africa as a slave or sold to Arabs as a slave.  Where was the enslaved black most well off?

Obviously, in America amidst white people who have assumed all the guilt for the slave wars of the Black King of Dahomey.  White people have accepted indoctrination that they are guilty of enslaving blacks and have obligation to pay reparations to “survivors” of black slavery.  The reparations task force formed by the Woke white governor of California figures blacks in California, which became a state in 1850 and whose Constitution forbade slavery, are owed $1 million dollars each on the slender grounds that an unknown ancestor might have been a slave 157 or more years ago. As the Hispanic and Asian population of California constitute a majority of the state’s population, and as they are not descendants of white slave owners (none of whom ever lived in California) targeted by the governor’s reparations task force, will they have to pay it?

The stupidity of white Americans boggles the mind.  Maybe their replacement by Hispanics pouring across the southern border is a good thing.  Maybe the genocide planed for white gentiles by Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab with the complicity of the FDA and US media is a good thing. Certainly, the dumbest people who have ever lived are white American liberals.

Have you ever thought about the American white liberal’s position?  They have bought into “white guilt” and the belief that white ethnicities are racist even if they don’t intend to be and are responsible for oppressing blacks and preventing their success. Therefore America has preferential treatment for blacks, special rights, that discriminate against whites, especially white heterosexual males.

Yet the same white liberals claim that 360,222 Northern white racists died killing 258,000 Southern white racists for the sole reason of emancipating blacks from slavery.

So how do we reconcile 618,222 dead white people killed in order to free blacks when whites, all whites, even white liberals, are racists?  The white deaths allegedly spent eliminating black slavery are 202,823 more deaths than Americans suffered during World War II when America fought both Japan and Germany.  (I don’t believe what is called the Civil War was a civil war or that it was about slavery.   Articles on my website make this clear.)

The picture drawn of white racists killing white racists in order to liberate blacks makes no sense.  If white Americans were really sacrificing their lives for blacks’ freedom, then how can whites be racists?

The ability of the American liberal to hold mutual incompatibles as truths illustrates the extremely limited intelligence and reasoning ability of this species of humanity.

This limited intelligence species–white liberals– is what controls the United States, or perhaps more accurately serves as a cloak for those who do control us.  In other words, they are twice stupid.

Yet insouciant Americans still vote for them.

Consider other parts of the inconsistent liberal agenda.  Liberals are all for diversity and multiculturalism.  Yet they teach blacks to hate white people, and liberal feminists teach women that men are their enemy.  Simultaneously, white culture is disparaged as imperialist exploitation. How does unity materialize out of Identity Politics?  How are white people included in “diversity” when they are demonized and their culture disparaged?

It seems that far from diversity and multiculturalism white people are excluded. The United States are disunited. Will the liberals will try to put Humpty Dumpty back together by federal force as they did once before?

(Paul Craig Roberts is an American economist and author. He formerly held a sub-cabinet office in the United States federal government as well as teaching positions at several U.S. universities. He is a promoter of supply-side economics and an opponent of recent U.S. foreign policy. Wikipedia)